Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice 1977 Directed by Danièle Huillet , Jean-Marie Straub Toute révolution est un coup de dés

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.

Country France

Production Country France

Language French

Spoken Language French

Gneres Comedy , Drama

Release Date 7 December 1977

11 mins